The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-16
HOW THE MONEY GOES.
ExTRAvAGANCE OF. GOTHAM'S
RICH YOUNG MEN.
The Anti-Poverty Fair-The Price an
Englishman Had to Pay to See Pic
ture-Begging for Charity's Sake.

tife-Begging for ChafitYS Bake
New YORK, Oct. 15.-"How much day
does it cost the average man to live in New
York; asked a stranger the other evening
From 81 to $50,n was the not very sat
isfactory reply. There is no place in Amer
lea where some men spend more money for
living expenses and others exist upon less
than New York. The Stranger, however,
referred to men who keep up appearances
and have reasonably good time. Here is
the story of the days experiences of two
OF them. Young Dives, whose father left
him fortune and nothing to do except to
spend the income from it, has suite of
rooms not far from Broadway, at that par
ticularly attractive point where Delmonlcos,
and other resorts are located. His rooms
| cost him 5000 year. His sole servant IS
a valet, who keeps his masters clothes III
order and his own mouth closed. Such
luxury costs Dives $50 a month, all his Old
clothes and occasionally present of money.
The young man, like the yearly increasing
multitude of bloods of leisure in the me-
tropolis gets up about about noon, puts on
his carefully brushed matutlnal suit, and at
once begins to spend money. A glass OF
congress water is the first thing upon which
he lays out funds. Then he takes a walk If
it is pleasant. Every fine day, at noon or
! thereabouts, you will find Dives and a score
of his ilk walking on Fifth avenue, between
Twenty-third and FortysSecond streets.
Dives meets a friend and they go somewhere
to breakfast. Your rich young man Of
leisure has a horror of eating alone. He
gets dainty breakfast at some fashionable
restaurant 1t costs him about 81 and he
manages to kill a great deal Of time eating
it. Then he succeeds in disbursing dollar
for good cigars He saunterS over to the
club, sits down, reads the morning papers
and gazes out of the window at the ladies,
who by that time are abroad on shopping
| expeditions. Having killed some more time
in that way, Dives sends to a fashionable
stable from which he hires turnouts at an
expense which never falls below $50 per
month He drives out to the Casino in
Central Park or to one of the road houses,
meets some one he knows and asks him to
have drink. The first round costs Soc
Another friend drops in on them and they
have a small bottle Friend No. l buys the
cigars and Dives purchases another small
bottle of wine Then he shakes hands with
mis- companions, orders up his carriage,
throws the hostler half dollar and con
tinues his ride. When he gets home he
would find, if he ever stopped to figure up
his expenses, that he had spent about 81 5O
for incidentals on the excursion. Some
times he puts on his afternoon suit and
strolls over to the club for a game of bill
lizards. To add interest to the affair, he
plays for a wager of dollar game and
the drinks. He loses, say, two games and
two rounds of drinks and gets away with
So more, but lie hasn't begun to spend
money vet. He invites his friend of the
billiard game to dine with him and they
separate to dress for dinner Dives puts on
an evening dress suit, which, with rich
cape overcoat for evening wear, has cost
him $3.50 and helped to swell his tailors bill
to 81, 600 year, walks slowly over TO
fashionable restaurant, meets his friend and
engages in the delightful task of ordering
dinner 1t is just an informal affair, with
a quart of claret, a quart of champagne and
some cordial for a final nip, but when the
pair have consumed it and an hours time
and the obsequious waiter has presented the
check, Dives finds his bill to be about $50.
The first reciprocates by inviting Dives to
the theatre. They hire a cab, go to the
| play, see one act and then go out to see a
man. They find him, several of him, i'll
| fact Dives opens a quart bottle of cham
payne and thew have drink all round at
| an expense of 50 80. When the play is
over the gair drive to the Hoffman House,
| see more friends, have more wine and spend
more money. Midnight approaches and the
| suggestion of light lunch meets with APP
prevail. Dives conducts the party to a Gaze
and devotes 81 to the light lunch. His
| friend and his friends friend treat and by
that time the young blood OF the men is
coursing through their veins in such a man
ner as to make anything like slow time
| abhorrent TO them and they conclude 20 re-
| pair to some point where faro or poker will
| give them the zest of excitement Dives
! doesn't lose very heavily, and when he goes
home at 3 O'Clock in the morning he would
| fluid, if he ever devoted his energies to such
| a vulgar task as computing his expenses,
| that 1T had cost him $50 TO get through the
| day, to say nothing of ms regular ex-
| penseS for rent, clothing, carriage hire, etc.
This estimate does not include expensive lux
uries at odd but not lnfrequent seasons.
| Take for example, the case OF Ives, the
Young Napoleon of Wall street. He was
not a gentleman OF elegant leisure like the
class to which Dives belongs, but schedule
of only part OF his liabilities, covering u
short period of expenditures, showed that
he owed 5430 for clothing. 1884 for hosiery,
| 81, 100 for jeweiry, Sl32 for silverware, so
Tor flowers and SIG ion hats
| 1t cost Dives SO, 0JO year to live and he
doesn't consider that be is extravagant, for
there are scores of young men in New York
| VINO spend as much Us he does.
Contrast with INN the young man who
works for reasonably liberal salary and,
like Dives, is bent upon having good time.
| lie has a Il 1T out iii the selecO but less eX
peTiSlVr quarters OF the Guy. LIZ. cOSU MN
dollar day tor rent. lie gets up early,
eats light breakfast that costs him SOC,
buys his morning papers and huri1es down
town TO business. A l5c. cigar to smoke on
his way from the elevated station where he
dissmOarkS is his only outlay until luncheon
time. He goes to a good restaurant and
gets a midday meal, including a bottle OF
beer and cigar for SOC. At the dinner hour
you will ind him at Il reasonably select up
town restaurant discussing a meal that
cost him - Like Dives lie goes to the the
;,tre BIS uresS Suil is ready made and cost
him not over 500, bur 10 the causual observer
he LOOKS az well Gt:irca as Dives. he has
his after theatre luncheon and drinks, treats
his friends and goes home to iiud that ii has
cost him $40 to get through the day. He
has hau quite as good a time, ana brushed
elbows with quite a. many distinguished
people as the elegant young man OF leisure
! He will tell you that DIau can 1--we like Il
! lord III New y DIRK on - OUO year and yet
there is one newspaper man III the metrop-
oils who boards at Il hotel and pays SlS
day for his rooms, 81 day for cigars and
proportionately large sums for food and
wine, and he imagineS that he is economi-
cal.
Sunday is the great day when New York
ers spend money, ami the ordinary man
who is bent upon enjoyment must calculate
upon paying out as much again Oh chat as
upon any other day. He doesn't imagine